Sentences with phrase «in lung transplant patients»

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a «Black Box» warning about the use of sirolimus in lung transplant patients, at least when started at the time of transplantation.

Not exact matches

Massachusetts General Hospital has, under strict protocols in emergency cases, transplanted hearts, lungs and livers from donors with hepatitis C to uninfected patients, who were given the antiviral medications, he says.

Marc Hartert and colleagues have studied how patients do after a lung transplant, and their review appears in the current edition of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

The patients, all doing well, are a teacher, a judge, an executive director, a grandmother and an extraordinary young woman who beat very long odds to undergo a second lung transplant in three years.

Loyola University Medical Center performed lung transplants on five patients in just over 24 hours.

Consequently, many physicians do not prescribe sirolimus in patients who are waiting for lung transplants.

«This opens up bone - marrow transplants to virtually any patient out there with a haematological condition» such as leukaemia or sickle - cell anaemia, says John Tisdale, a haematologist at the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Returning to everyday life and resuming work in one's regular occupation are common goals of transplant patients, yet not all who undergo lung transplantation can go back to work.

Pulmonary fibrosis, an ongoing process of scarring that leaves patients chronically short of breath, can progress in severity until the only course of treatment is lung transplant.

«We have assembled a great team of transplant surgeons and researchers here so we can offer patients in critical need of a lung transplant the highest level of care, with the expectation of the best possible outcomes for them,» said Paul Noble, MD, director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars - Sinai and chair of the Department of Mediclung transplant the highest level of care, with the expectation of the best possible outcomes for them,» said Paul Noble, MD, director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars - Sinai and chair of the Department of MedicLung Institute at Cedars - Sinai and chair of the Department of Medicine.

We continuously evaluate new technologies for treating heart, liver, lung, and kidney disease in order to provide the highest level of care for patients who need transplants, and we're investigating novel ways to increase the number of healthy donor organs so that we can help more people.

We've performed more than 600 lifesaving lung transplants, and our patients» one - year survival rate is No. 1 in the region, exceeding the national average.

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Patients with cases of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) or primary arterial hypertension (PAH) that do not respond to medical therapy may need to undergo a single or double lung transplant operation in order to treat their condition.